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Aaron Douglas, artist1899–1979born: Topeka, Kansas, United States ; died: Nashville, Tennessee, United States ; active: United StatesLangston Hughes, author1902–1967born: Joplin, Missouri, United States ; died: New York, New York, United States Opportunity Magazine, publisher

Image in top half of sheet, Langston Hughes poem “Bound No’th Blues” in the lower half. Image, all in deep blue, of a man walking towards the left side of the composition, he is surrounded by vegetation and next to a river that winds through the composition toward the sun in the background. Image rendered in a heavily abstracted style.